Proof of concept for Plugin system (fixes #3562) by Nutomic · Pull Request #4695 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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This PR adds a basic plugin hook using Extism (webassembly), including a simple example plugin written in Go. Plugins can also be written in many other languages like JS, Rust, .NET or C. For now t...
  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    One potential PoC for a plug-in could be a “conversation listener”?

    Something which notifies you whenever a new comment or reply is made to a selected post/comment, so that you can keep track of any new conversation.

    Dunno how viable that sort of thing would be though … how could plugins affect the UI? Plus the plug-in would need its own database.

    Beyond that, moderation seems like an obvious application?

    Perhaps some sort of wiki like application, where posts containing certain tags or other markers get automatically organised someway in a separate post or page?

    • Corngood@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Something which notifies you whenever a new comment or reply is made to a selected post/comment, so that you can keep track of any new conversation.

      Something like this would be awesome as a core Lemmy feature IMO. It would essentially turn a post (or maybe any comment tree?) into a matrix style room. Lemmy is actually decent for long term discussion (e.g. helping someone with a problem), but not if there are more than two people involved.

      • panned_cakes [none/use name]
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        6 months ago

        Having a toggleable option to get notifications from replies to your repliers, and so on, would be a lot more helpful than the microblog style of @mentioning every person above you in a chain.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Other random ideas:

    • Federation health monitor? Checks if posts are federating well.
    • Activity summariser: eg shows how many posts/comments in selected communities since last visited.
      • EDIT: I’m thinking of Phanpy’s catch-up feature here (it’s a web app for microblogging platforms and easily one of the best social media clients there is … if you haven’t seen the catchup feature go check it out).
    • link localiser? Probably better in the backend (as suggested already). But it intercepts links to posts/comments and provides links to the local versions.
    • Blaze@reddthat.com
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      6 months ago

      Federation health monitor? Checks if posts are federating well.

      This dashboard is quite useful: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/cdfzs0dwal3pca/federation-health-time-behind?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_software=All&from=now-12h&to=now&var-remote_instance=lemmy.ml&var-remote_instance=reddthat.com&var-remote_instance=lemdro.id

  • wiki_me@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Integrating with patreon or opencollective where one of the rewards is access to supporter only lemmy communities might be a good use case for a plugin system.

  • guts@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    This could be an unpopular opinion but tipping crypto is also popular in other social media as Nostr or Farcaster.